08-23-2006, 04:12 PM
Quote:Overall, not bad. Only thing I regret is that I used to know a good number of ppl in the BGs on both sides and enjoyed playing with/against them. No more of that now. Personality has been pretty much lost in the BGs.What you lose in personality you gain in variety.
If you're not familiar with the situation on Stormrage, it's been bad. The Alliance to Horde ratio, which was bad before (like 2:1), has gotten worse in recent months as a few high-end Horde raiding guilds transferred out. Playing on the BGs there got completely monotonous; there were 1 or 2 Horde PvP teams running at any given time and if they didn't want to play AB, you didn't get to play, period.
Sure, you get to know all the Horde players that DO play regularly pretty well. But that enhances the boredom - you know exactly what they're going to do. Start an AB match and you know that this Horde team is going to send 9 players to the stables right off the bat to disrupt the hell out of the Alliance team. They do it every time. Etc.
It IS kinda cool to see Player X and think "ah yes, X, we meet again," and know that he's thinking the same way. As a battleground healer, however, that's NOT a good thing. Even though I'm not a 24/7 Grand Marshal grinder, the Horde teams all know when they see Cleoboltra in the battleground to eliminate me first without mercy. It's amusing when you get triple-counterspelled simultaneously by three mages because they're all so eager to take you out - for about 4 seconds, which is your lifespan when 5-6 Horde characters all gang up on you at the outset of any major team fight. Or else I spend entire fights sheeped, watching my teammates around me do the fighting.
In the new BGs, I have more freedom to not be recognized as a BG healer and my survival time increases. This is a plus just for my enjoyment factor alone and spending less time in graveyards.
Quote:PS. Hehe, I just thought of a forth one. Ruthlessness. On a PvE server, camping the enemies spawn point graveyard is - or was in my day - considered bad form. On a PvP server you're considered mad if you don't. It's par for the course and an accepted, legitimate, above board tactic.No kidding? Ouch.
Yes, on Stormrage, Alliance PvPers will get furious with any jerks who GY camp Horde players. This is mostly due to the population imbalance - anything that could help frustrate the Horde and make them not bother queuing up anymore is considered extremely bad form. So much so that Alliance members have been known to ask Horde players to Mind Control a GY camper so the Alliance guys can gang up and annihilate the loser.
I can see how on a PvP server, the bets are off, since the hatred the sides have for each other is so intense. On Stormrage it's more like "well, we want Honor, you want Honor, let's not be asses about it and we'll all have fun. Oh, and I can kick your butt any day of the week." It's hard to hate Horde so much when half of the "top" PvPers on Stormrage Alliance side also PvP on Horde side with alts. A very different atmosphere, but is it all that surprising when Blizzard's lame Honor System has you compete with your own faction members and not the enemy faction members?
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.